Harry Potter (HP) has been translated into 45 languages, including Ancient Greek and Latin. It has also been adapted for an American-English audience, with minor but significant changes. Most HP translators have been daunted ...

In 2003 the highlight of the International Federation of Translators conference was their UNESCO Literary Translators Committee Round Table devoted to the translators of J.K. Rowling’s work as contributors to her popularity. ...

Benedikt Korf’s recent invitation to re-think the deployment
of Heidegger’s philosophy within geography in the
pages of this journal (Korf, 2014) is both opportune and essential:
opportune, because the many and continuing ...

High Island is one of very many early medieval monastic sites which furnish scarcely a mention in the historical record. It follows, then, that any attempt to sketch out the history of the island must inevitably be tentative ...

Historical fiction has always been a popular genre in international children's literature, and recent decades have seen a notable increase in the number of novels for children set during the First World War. Providing ...

This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive ...

Elfriede Jelinek‟s Die Klavierspielerin (1983),
1
a novel about a piano teacher (Erika
Kohut) at the Vienna conservatory in her late thirties who still lives with her mother
in a small flat, deconstructs and anatomises ...

In this paper the Roman aqueducts of Crete will be presented for the purpose of exploring the effects of aqueduct construction on settlement patterns on the island.1 The study will demonstrate the diversity and the extent ...

Last of the four provincial branches to be formed in 1885, Connacht
has always been fourth among equals in the pecking order of
Irish rugby. In the late 1990s, spiralling costs associated with the
administration of a ...

This article is part of a larger study of Italian commercial and urban spaces developed around the world over the past fifteen years. It focuses in particular on the Italian Forum, a residential and commercial development ...

From 1954 to 1982, the right-wing French novelist Antoine Blondin wrote adaily chronicle for the three weeks of the Tour de France cycle race in thepages of the newspaper L’Équipe in which he was given the freedom tocover ...

In the past three decades, the whole university system has been undergoing a global
shift to a new way of creating and using knowledge (Ramsden: 3). This shift brings together
disciplines and encourages a practical ...

This report looks at the linguistic landscape in Ireland in 2017, using the words of migrants to
describe their experiences in a changing and multilingual context. According to the 2016 Census,
612,018 people in Ireland ...

A previously rather neglected area of research, namely the interaction between Latin and the vernacular in medieval Irish texts, and the possibility of applying categories of linguistic analysis like code-switching and ...